The First Twin Towers The Empire State Building Part Two The Chrysler Building (1930) and the Empire State Building (1931) In the beginning, the architects who dreamed of tall buildings in the late nineteenth century faced the same problems as their Medieval...
A Fair at the Edge of Time The Futurama of Norman Bel Geddes In the early decades of the twenty-first century, when women speak out and say “Me Too,” one has grown accustomed to the time-honored art historical practice of ignoring the bad behavior of male...
Aerodynamics and the American Home Norman Bel Geddes and Consumerism The American public learned how to spend money on consumer goods in the Roaring Twenties. The Great War had forced the United States to grow up quickly and the techniques of mass production or...
Controlling Women In Italy Designing Submission, Part One Any authoritarian regime, of any age, regardless of location on the globe will move immediately to control the uncontrollable: women. The first step is always to take away as many of the pre-given rights...
The Melancholy Afterlife of Italian Fascist Architecture Funerary Architecture, Part One If the population of a nation is alert to warning signs–and usually we are oblivious to portents–it would be well to take notice when that nation begins to build...
The Weissenhof Experiment in Stuttgart Neues Bauen in 1927 The Nazis, newly in power and early simmering with racist hatred for all things un-German, didn’t know what to make of the shining white city on the hill. So utterly alien to the fascists was the...
